Nuggets Will Listen To Trade Offers For Carmelo

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is sick.

I think the Warriors take the BPA. With the 14th overall pick you have to. The best players are already off the board, and probably won’t fit your need anyway. Teams will usually find more success drafting the best player left on the board regardless of need. CDR would most definitely not be the BPA at 14. Maybe if we say, trade down to the 16, 17, 18 area, then he’d be a better pick once Greene, Budinger, McGee, Arthur, Speights, find themselves on other teams.

I doubt we do any major roster shake up. Baron’s here for another year. We resign Monta and AB. Resign Kelenna, and cut ties with Barnes, MP, and Cro.

The only trade i could see happening is Al being sent out.

I think the Warriors take the BPA. With the 14th overall pick you have to. The best players are already off the board, and probably won’t fit your need anyway. Teams will usually find more success drafting the best player left on the board regardless of need. CDR would most definitely not be the BPA at 14. Maybe if we say, trade down to the 16, 17, 18 area, then he’d be a better pick once Greene, Budinger, McGee, Arthur, Speights, find themselves on other teams.

I doubt we do any major roster shake up. Baron’s here for another year. We resign Monta and AB. Resign Kelenna, and cut ties with Barnes, MP, and Cro.

The only trade i could see happening is Al being sent out.

The only options for the Warriors to get is #’s 1, 2, 3 or 14. The only time the ping pong balls matter is for the first three spots where each team in the lottery has a chance. As it stands now, the Warriors have a 0.6% chance of winning the first overall pick and a about a 1.81% chance of making the top 3. Picks 4-14 are based off of record and tie-breakers.

I’d like Walker in the second round as well. He has the potential to be a great defender with his length, NBA body and athleticism.

I’m secretly hoping we buy a draft pick in the 20’s and take Rush to take MP’s role as defensive specialist.

With heart, desire and a willing attitude. You can teach post moves, on ball defense, shooting mechanics, etc. etc. You can’t teach a guy to play his heart out each night.

If you want to take a guy who can make 3’s and contribute right away, why not trade down and take Brandon Rush? He’s a legitimate catch and shoot three point threat, and can play tough defense. He might be able to step right in and be the best perimeter/wing defender the warriors have.

the POB comparisons scare me off of Speights and Jordan. If we had never drafted POB I’d love both of them.

any 3 point shooters? We have people who take a lot of threes, but none of them shoot above 40%, and for them 35-37% is like a career year. I’m talking about a 40+% guy who has an equal chance of making every three he takes, and won’t only make threes if he just made one.

There, I said it. :-P

Speights sounds interesting from a statistical standpoint, and I’m sure he learned a bit about how to be a good player from Noah and Horford.

Joey Dorsey is not even a rookie yet, has never been through an NBA season to get acclimated to the environment. By the time you figure out what you’ve got with Dorsey, he’ll be 27-28 and at the tail end of his prime.

Additionally, if he has no jumpshot and relies on putbacks and lobs, his defender can just sag off him and clog the lane. Joey would be a good pickup in the second round. He is not first round, nor is he lottery material.

Gordon is an undersized scorer. He’s basically a bigger, slower, trigger happy Monta. He backed out of his Illinois commitment, got whiny after the coaching change. Oh, and his production was inconsistent throughout the year. No thank you. He’s got bust written all over him.

I’m not a Gordon fan, but I think your trade idea is interesting. Crittenton or Lowry would make a good backup pg here, Cardinal could actually be useful with his rebounding, shooting touch and freethrow shoting (an extremely overpaid croshere) and if we had a shot at OJ Mayo I’d make the deal in an instant. I know Memphis is desperate to unload Cardinal, but would they want Al? I think we’d have to give up more to get the deal done, but its an interesting idea none the less.

Memphis would want Al. Dumping Cardinal’s contract isn’t worth swapping the 3rd pick to the 14th. It’s too far of a drop off.

If we got the third pick, it’d be OJ for me.

Team option means they can pay him what was originally agreed upon (<$1M in this case). That’s a no brainer. Next year, who knows, but we’ll be in a different situation too. Millsap will be in Utah for the coming year. Deal with it.

Powe, I don’t know about. Somebody catch me if I’m wrong, but Powe’s also not going anywhere unless the C’s want to let him go.

Look, I think we should “get two of those guys”, but so does every other team in the league… including the teams that “those guys” are on.

youre saying OJ Mayo and Joey Dorsey “bring the same dinner to the table”? Youre right I’d just as soon take Dorsey as Mayo, Westbrook or Lopez (and I’m just assuming you forgot Rose in your post, but maybe you’d like Dorsey as much as him too) What is wrong with all these Dorsey bandwagoners? Did you guys watch him play more than once or twice? HE”S NOT THAT GOOD. as a 2nd round pick, he’d be fine, but he’d be a flat out awful pick in the lottery.

you said Dorsey is as good as anyone after the top 2. hypothetically if we traded up to the third pick you’d still want Dorsey. I’m not in favor of insulting people on here but dude thats flat out dumb.

i dont particularly like dorsey but I’m not completely opposed to him in the second round. at least you have some sense, unlike some of the dorsey backers.

if Dallas starts shopping him what would you offer? How excited would Nellie be to be reunited with him?

Who do you think we should pick up in the first round?

Donte Greene is nothing like Brandan Wright. Yes, they’re noth 6’10’’ and rail thin, but Greene projects to be a SF in the Rashard Lewis mold. Think Al Harrington as his basement projection.

I’m sorry that you are endorsing Dorsey for this team.

I can’t believe people think Mayo was overrated. He led that pile of crap USC team to the tourny! No he didn’t make it far once there, but he averaged 20PPG as a freshman. Don’t forget that. Compare his numbers to Brandon Roy, Deron Williams, Gilbert Arenas, Dwyane Wade or Baron Davis’ Freshman years in college and you’ll see Mayo out-produced them.

Mayo can shoot, pass, and drive, although he could get better at finishing through contact and shot judgment. But the thing i love about him is that he has the competitive spirit and takes the shots when his team needs it the most as well as guard the opposing team’s best defensive wing.

he’s not. check some stats from his time in Europe. Horrible percentages. He’s got great RANGE but at this point borderline terrible accuracy. He has the ability to BECOME a good shooter, but is not one now.